Morning full moon, today
Over the ruins and roads
Morning full moon, this hour
Over the cordoned land
Morning full moon, my love
Can’t take my eyes off you
What do you so magnetize?
In the dawning blue?
Over the steel cumbersome bird
Moving in straight lines
Over the restless, swerving larks
In your gaze, benign
Crossing the road I miss you
Then in between the homes
Morning full moon, you shine
You radiate alone
Can’t take my heart from you
Don’t want to go inside
Morning full moon your soul
A perfect one sublime
In the shores of the ebbing night
Your face a haunting show
But in the red rising vista
I’m taken by your glow
Morning full moon find me
When I’m lost in my nights
Morning full moon guide me
When hatred clouds my sight
Morning full moon stir me
When I’m engrossed in fear
Morning full moon touch me
So I can feel you near…
Category Archives: Poetic Prayers
Poetic Prayers: O Lord
By Novid Shaid, 2005
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Help me in my desperate plight, O Lord,
The world is wrestling with my heart, O Lord,
Dragging me down an abyss, O Lord,
Desiring to suppress my light, O Lord,
So rescue me from my poor plight, My Dear Lord.
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Poetic Prayers: A Prayer For Dark Days
by Novid Shaid, 2011
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O Allah! Lord of the brightest mornings and the darkest nights!
Lord of our terrible times and the moments of our greatest delights!
O Allah! Protect us in these dark days of murder and strife
Wrap us in Your love, with Your cloak of security and might!
For Our Mothers and Fathers
by Novid Shaid, 2011
For Our Fathers
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Like a roof, giving shelter from the cold,
Like foundations, shouldering the weight of his household,
Like a candle, lighting up his family’s world,
Like cement, binding us together with a firm hold,
is our father
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They Will Live On
By Novid Shaid
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For the martyred innocents of the Arab Spring
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They will live on and thrive
Dressed in the raiment of true freedom
Dwelling where they please without pain or fear
They will live on and prosper
Untouchable, undisturbed
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A Prayer: Thank You! Oh Lord, Allah
Novid Shaid, January, 2011
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Oh You, without form
Ar Rahman, Ar Raheem
Unlike all we imagine
Free of error and need.
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Oh Lord! As I witness this world
On the spellbinding screen
Showing pain and suffering
Worse than I could ever dream.
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A Prayer: The Promised Land
By Novid Shaid, December, 2010
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Oh Lord,
I cling on to the rocks of your sacred path,
dangling
over
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bottomless
abyss
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my
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Shade Us By Your Throne, O Lord
When the Sun is two bows’ length,
When the heat will not subside
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Shade us by Your Throne, O Lord
Shade us by Your Throne.
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On the day the Horn erupts
While the living ones devise
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Shade us by Your throne O Lord,
Shade us by Your throne.
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When the Trump is blown again
And the souls are unified,
On the day the Trump summons
All that are and all that were,
Naked, sweating, trembling
None can flee the summoning,
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Shade us by Your throne O Lord
Shade us by Your throne.
Poetic Prayer In Response to The Hadith Qudsi, “Ya Ibaadi” Hadith Number 24, Arbaeen Nawawiyya
Novid Shaid, 2003
Oh Allah! Oh everlasting King!
Oh heirless Emperor! Oh Sovereign!
Oh You, who has forbidden oppression
For yourself, and outlawed transgression.